Spike socket for railway ties



Sept. 9. 1924. P 1,508,233

C. B. MOODY SPIKE SOCKET FOR RAILWAY n25 Fiiea March 22 1924 TTORNEY.

Patented Sept. 9, 1924.

UNITED STATES CHURCHILL B. MOODY, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.

SPIKE SOCKET FOR RAILWAY TIES.

Application filed. March 22, 1924. Serial No. 701,140.

To all whlom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHURCHILL B. MoonY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Minneapolis, in the county of Hennepin and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Spike Sockets for Railway Ties, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to railroad ties and like constructions, and particularly to means for holding the spikes which engage the base of a rail.

If apertures are made in a concrete tie for the purpose of holding spikes, the spikes never take a good hold of the apertures and it is practically impossible to make screw-threaded openings in concrete ties for the reception of screw spikes.

The object of my invention is to provide a holding device for rail spikes which is very cheap to manufacture, which is thoroughly effective in use, which will prevent all tendency of the concrete tie to check or split, and which will provide for a thoroughly good grip or engagement of the spike, whether the ordinary plain spike or the screw spike is used, with the tie.

Other objects will appear in the course of the following description.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a perspective view of a tie having embedded therein spike sockets made in accordance with my invention;

Figure 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of a tie with the spike sockets;

Figure 3 is an enlarged fragmentary sectional view through the tie and the spike.

socket Figure 4 is a cross section on the linepoints so as to provide outwardly projecting anchors 14 which project outward from the body of the socket and which are anchored within the concrete of the tie so that the socket cannot be removed from the tie.

Awooden plug 15 is designed to be held within this socket into which the screw spike or the plain tapered spike 16 may be driven. Any other suitable material may be filled into the pockets and forced into the corrugations so that the plugging material cannot slip out. Preferably, however, I use, wood, as the socket may be forced tightly into engagement with the wooden plug and thereby lock the plug to the socket, while the corrugations of the socket will lock it into the cement tie so that the socket cannot be pulled out. Sockets of this character will prevent the cement tie from checkingv when forcing a spike or wood screw into the socket.

The device may be cheaply made, may be readily applied and has been found extremely effective.

I claim 1 A spike socket for railway ties comprising an interior plug or core of material into which a spike may be driven, and an outer sheathing of corrugated metal, the sheathing being corrugated both internally and externally whereby the corrugations of the sheathing will engagethe plug.

2. As an article of manufacture, a socket for cement railway ties designed to receive a railway spike, the socket comprising a centrally disposed wooden plug or core, and an outer sheathing of corrugated metal, the metal being corrugated externally and internally and the corrugations being embedded in said core, the sheathing having outwardly projecting members to anchor the socket within the tie.

3. The combination with a cement railroad tie, of a socket embedded therein, the socket consisting of corrugated sheet metal, and a plug of material adapted to receive a spike filling the interior of the socket.

In testimony whereof I hereunto afiix my signature.

CHURCHILL B. MOODY. 

